Treatments

Treatments and procedures available at Northwestern Memorial Hospital include:

• Colonoscopy
• ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography)
• Esophageal sclerotherapy
• Esophageal variceal banding
• Percutaneous liver biopsy
• TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt)
• Transjugular liver biopsy
• Transplantation surgery
• Upper endoscopy

Our physicians also participate in liver transplantation, and the Comprehensive Liver Cancer Clinic works with patients who have cancers of the liver.